The CCL Handbook of Coaching: A Guide for the Leader Coach presents CCL's five essentials for coaching--relationship, assessment, challenge, support, and results. In addition, it offers practical advice on the process and practice of coaching, including success and failure, coaching behaviors and best practices, phases of the coaching process, and putting into operation a coaching system. It offers practical advice for coaches regarding the application of the CCL coaching framework and process to different circumstances or contexts, including senior leaders, diversity, health, transitions, hardships and politics.